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Age-appropriate is a dreary dress code for an industry that prides itself on imagination. It suggests that somewhere between one birthday and the next, a woman should begin editing herself down, trading experimentation for restraint and making sure her appearance puts everyone else at ease. Reeta Basu, the 80-year-old muse […]
Three Taiwanese creatives based in Berlin explore the uneasy relationship between being looked at, dressing up and feeling that something is slightly wrong. Sometimes a scene gets under your skin before you realize you’re still smiling at it. Horror has always made room for that reaction, and anyone familiar with […]
Love outlasts the relationship that produced it and refuses to become a lesson, no matter how many times you try to turn it into one. Jeremie Soyan knows this; you can hear it in the way he builds a song, the way he stays inside the mess of a feeling […]
For Gustaffson, every song begins with a story. Fronted by singer-songwriter and actor Andrew Gower, the Manchester band moves between indie rock, Northern Soul and cinematic storytelling, drawing inspiration from everything from working-class Britain to the films, cities and people that have shaped their lives. Their debut album, “Black & […]
There is a moment in Collected XX’s new editorial where two headless silhouettes stand behind a seated woman like witnesses at a trial. They are shaped like trunks, the kind a family fills before a wedding, except they have grown shoulders, collars, the suggestion of a torso. Draped in rose-printed […]
Diana Boariu photographed long before she wrote. Her own body, especially, she looked at it the way you’d look at a photo that hadn’t developed yet, something she didn’t quite recognize. She writes only at night, because that’s the one hour she can’t hide from herself. There’s one poem she […]
There is a kind of music that gets made because the alternative, not making it, would be worse. Jake Sinetos has been building Mazmere from the Peak District for a few years now, threading post-punk edges and ambient drift into something that sits slightly outside genre, slightly outside comfort, and […]
Angel Fang found a chunk of its audience the way a lot of music finds people now, through a Reel at 1 am, no context, just a sound that wouldn’t leave. Behind it is a California-based musician who spent a long stretch unhappy with the music he was making before […]
Jake Sinetos aka Mazmere spent years pulling ‘David’ apart and putting it back together, never quite trusting it was finished. What changed was that the song stopped resisting him. Released on David’s birthday instead of the anniversary of his death, the track sits alongside three others built with longtime collaborators […]
Hong Kong-born, Paris-based artist Wallace Woo concludes a landmark solo exhibition that has sparked genuine debate across the European art world, introducing a movement that trades speed for depth, and ego for earth. What does it mean to slow down in an era that mistakes velocity for vision? Wallace Woo […]